“@BriceIzyah i freaking love you so much <3 you were too perfect for them to handle,” tweeted fan Courtney R., @killmewitharock. “You made them all look like peasants compared to you.”

“Survivor,” which is in its 28th season, added a little twist this time around. Competitors were broken into tribes based on the skills they use daily — beauty, brains and brawn.

Johnston, a member of the beauty tribe, said he was a threat to the members on his team, and that’s why he was voted out so early.

“I knew that I was going to be a target, just because I didn’t 100 percent fit in with my tribe — I was a little different,” Johnston said in a recent interview. “The only good thing about me leaving ‘Survivor’ was that I went out fighting. They got rid of me because I was a threat. My tribe was scared that if I were to go further it would be a problem later on in the game.

“To me, that’s the ultimate compliment. I was a threat — I was physical, I could play the social game, I was very easy on the eyes, clearly, and I’m from Philly, so they were scared!”

A “Survivor” enthusiast way before he was a cast member, Johnston auditioned for the show once prior to getting his big break. The first time, he went to Atlantic City, stood on the boardwalk for four hours, and when he finally got his shot in front of the cameras, froze, he said.

The second time was the charm. He submitted a 45-second video clip, which seemed to be all CBS needed to realize that Johnston would be a good addition to the show.

“CBS wanted me,” he said. “From there, (everything) went crazy.”

Johnston’s fans may be interested to learn there’s more to him than his purple pants. A member of the class of 2004 at Abington Senior High School, Johnston described his high school experience as a “blast” and talked about participating in the production of “Big” in ninth grade.

One of Johnston’s former teachers, Angelo Berrios, said Johnston was a student in his 10th-grade world civilization class in 2001 and Berrios remembers him being a bright, energetic and compassionate student.

“He generally cared for others, and he was very funny, too,” he said.

After high school, Johnston went on to pursue a degree in education at Temple University with a minor in public health and then secured a job as a social worker in Montgomery County, working with at-risk youth. He also works at Stride Rite in the Willow Grove Park mall — a job he initially obtained to put himself through college.

As a contestant on the show, Johnston said he wanted to be an example to his clients of what can happen when you follow your dreams.

“I mostly work with teenagers that are considered ungovernable — they’re on drugs, dropping out of school, there is police involvement — and what I try to tell them is that whatever your dream is in life, it doesn’t matter what it is, you can do it. I’m living my dream being on ‘Survivor’ and being fabulous. You can live your dream and go to college and get your own apartment. Whatever it is (they want), I try to teach my clients (to go after it).”

One thing Johnston said he learned from being on the show is he never wanted to smell bad again.

“After I got eliminated off the island, I smelled so funky,” he said. “I have never been so funky in my life. I was like, ‘Oh my god, I never want to smell this bad again.’ I came home, and I started my own perfume line called Fragrances by Brice Izyah, so I never have to smell that bad again. Nobody should.”